Discussion: NYT: WH Has Developed Plan To Oust Tillerson, Replace Him With Pompeo

I am increasingly worried that the pig-eyed sack of shit in the WH is hoping for, and behaving to provoke, a devastating attack on the US. He doesn’t even care if it come from ISIS or al Qaeda or North Korea, he just wants - needs - it to happen to save his presidency and remove any chance of the Mueller probe being front and center. It would also allow him to become even more authoritarian and prop him up in the polls. The serial draft dodger wants to be a wartime president.

And I don’t need a scrap of tinfoil to hold these beliefs.

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Apart from the unsuitability of the actors involved here, the abject dysfunction of this admin is demonstrated with the continuing game of musical chairs.

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And Cotton is the one who wants ending the individual mandate to be in the tax cut bill.

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I often see stories about people who have just become American citizens and how proud and happy they are to become part of this country.

I keep waiting for republicans to become Americans. I cannot believe they’re allowing what’s going on.

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I’m waiting for him to nominate Caligula’s horse to run HUD.
(which might actually be an improvement, come to think of it)

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Yes, indeed, my first thought too. I suspect we’ll end up with various Senate-confirmed folk with multiple portfolios like Mulvaney. Just look at Kushner if you think that isn’t how Trump works.

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We have a number of horse’s asses, another one would be overkill.

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Forget Iran. Cotton as head of the CIA is war against our democracy.

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Did Rex actually think he would not get canned after calling Trump a fucking moron?

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Pompeo To State, Cotton To CIA

This is such an explicit horror and I’m shocked there’s still some room to be shocked.

I don’t even know what else to feel. Wow.

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Must I?

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War with North Korea and war with Iran? Maybe I should listen more closely to the end of times folks.

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My sister in law is a professor of surgery at a medical school. She often has residents at her house when we go there for dinner on holidays. More than half are immigrants, or the children of immigrants. All of them embarrass me with their work ethic, intellect, and human goodness.

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You’re fooling yourself if you don’t think Trump is provoking like hell. It would solve a lot of problems for him. And he doesn’t give a shit about anyone except his gross, fat self.

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The head of the CIA became our president in the past, so I think we’re still the USA … for now.

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It’s know as arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
It will still sink while the band plays

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You serve at the pleasure of the President, although we’re not sure if the President would actually approve of these changes in leadership (actually we probably haven’t even told him yet)

lol@ this clowncar of a maladministration

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Oh, you mean the guy who replaced Thurgood Marshall’s revered seat with an unqualified, lying, vengeful sexual predator? Yep, you’re right.

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“First he came for the Iranians, but I said nothing because I’m not Iranian…”

War with Iran is at the top of the list for folks like Cotton and the Rapturists who voted him into office…

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Just look at Ivanka, trust fund baby, up to eyeballs in nannies and other staff, hasn’t done an honest day’s work in her life, minister of empowering women with dirty old man who wants to take away access to birth control.

@bankerpup Yes, you must look. Think of the admin as a kaleidoscope, always changing, always morphing into something new

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